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Cake day: April 27th, 2026

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  • Until the vast majority of voters who are too self-absorbed to bother understanding how they’re being led around the nose into screwing themselves — and blaming the wrong people for said screwing — nothing of any real significance will change. All those dystopian movies have it right: the masses will march like lemmings straight to their own doom before they even begin to question what they’re told. There aren’t enough of us who know better to stop this inevitability.





  • But the answer to finding yourself being load-bearing is not to start using AI code with AI tests.

    The Great Man theory of open source development, where it all hinges on one heroic individual, has always been a fatal weakness. It happens because the companies benefiting from the software just will not pay the individual guys who let their company work. So the companies try to make the guys feel obligated to do work for them for free.

    Those guys have to start saying “no.” Go sailing. Declare the project closed and see if the beneficiaries will finally contribute. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. But no company will put in the developers or money for this stuff to be done until you say “no”.

    You heard it from the Ray-Guns first, but apparently you need to hear it again: “Just say no!”


  • I assume it goes both ways - i.e. there are other countries who laugh at some American names due to how they sound in their local language. It’s just human nature - whether it’s just for the humor, or to ridicule & act condescending will depend upon the individuals involved.